To manage multiple WordPress sites you still sell maintenance by the card until you have three. At fifteen, Mondays go to guessing which ones still run PHP 7.4 — and you are off by one every time.
The unit is the group, not the site
One client has four brochures and a shop. Another has a 2019 WordPress nobody wants to touch. Fifteen tickets multiply the misses. You ask “which have a WooCommerce update”, you get a list. ManageWP alternative, MainWP alternative — same job, different wire. Ours is MCP plus a dashboard, not another wp-admin.
What you see without logging in
Core, plugin and PHP versions. Last heartbeat. Unexpected admins. That is enough to plan a Tuesday. Updates wait for a confirm and a copy.
Where to start
Pair one site, then the group. The first useful control is not “update everything”. It is the list of gaps. Then a lot, a copy, a rollback if checkout breaks.
